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REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
Traite de l’ Organization du Pied du Cheval, comprenant 
l’ Etude de la Structure, des Fonctions et des Maladies 
de cet Organe. Par M. H. Bouley, Professor de Clinique et 
de Chirurgie a, l’Ecole Nationale Veterinaire d’Alfort, Secretaire 
General de la Societe Nationale et Centrale de Medecine Vete- 
rinaire. Avec un Atlas de 34 Planches Lithographiees, desinees 
d’apres Nature par M. Edm. Pochet. Paris, 1851. 
Pas de pied, pas de cheval. — Lafosse. 
No foot, no horse. — Jeremiah Bridges. 
Treatise on the Organization of the Foot of the Horse, com- 
prising the Study of the Structure, Functions and Diseases 
of that Organ. By M. Bouley. With an Atlas of 34 Litho- 
graphic Plates. Paris, 1851. Parts I & II. Fcap. 8vo, pp. 320. 
[ Continued from p. 630. ] 
We stated on a former occasion that the “ First Division” of 
the work before us is devoted to the Anatomy of the Foot, com- 
prehending under this general heading two orders of parts, in- 
ternal and external , the former comprising: — I. the osseous 
apparatus; II. the articular ; III. the vascular; IV. the nervous; 
V. the tegumentary : while under the latter is considered the 
horny covering of those parts or hoof, which is described, firstly, 
as consisting of several parts, and afterwards regarded as an 
entire and indivisible body ; the anatomical section of the 
work concluding with “ a general view of the alterations of 
form and structure presented by the foot at different periods of 
life.” 
We do not remember encountering so elaborate a veteri- 
nary performance as the present one : it is quite a new style 
of writing to what we are accustomed ; it looks almost like a 
new era in our literary annals dawning upon us. Anatomical 
portraits, such as the ones before us, will indeed raise our “ art” 
to something like a level with that of the sister science. 
